Gin-saw cleaner.



M. FLOWERS & w. s. LYNCH.

GIN SAW CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25. 1914.

1,140,669. Patented May 25, 1915.

inesses I i ,1 W Inventors W W /i" J MALON' I. FLOWERS AND WILLIAM S. LYNCH, 0F WAELIDER, TEXAS.

GIN-SAW CLEANER.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MALON I. ,FLOWERS and WILLIAM S. LYNCH, citizens of the United States, residing at WVaelder, in the county of Gonzales, State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Gin-Saw Cleaner,

, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming thesubject matter of this application is a cleaner for gin saws, and one object of the present-invention is to provide a device so constructed that the saws may be cleaned while in rotation, and without removing the saws from the main frame.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel. means whereby a rotatable attrition element may be brought into and out of contact with the rotating gin saws.

It is within the scope of the invention to improve generally and'to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combinationand arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described vand claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a portion of a gin equipped with the device forming the subject matter of this application; Fig.2 is a vertical detail in section, parts being broken away; Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the disks which go to make up the attrition.

member; Fig. 4 is an elevation showing a portion of the attrition member; Fig. 5 is an elevationshowing a modified form of the attrition member; Fig. 6 is a plan of the disk used in that form of the invention shown in Fig. 5.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1915.

Application filed June 25, 1914. Serial No. 847,274.

a belt 7 although the shaft 4 may be driven in any desired manner.

Mounted upon the lower portion of the main frame 1 are bearings 8 supporting for tilting movement an auxiliary frame the same comprising a rock shaft 9 which is immediately journaled in the bearings 8. The rock shaft 9 supports side bars 10 and 11, the bars 10 and 11 being halved together as shown at 12, so that the auxiliary frame may be extended longitudinally, the side bars 11 being slotted longitudinally as shown at 33 andthe side bars 10 being provided with securing devices 14, such as bolt and nut structures adapted to hold the side bars 10 and 11 against relative movement after adjustment.

Noting the point at which the reference character 15 is applied in Fig. 1 of the drawing it will be observed that the side bars 10 and 11 are duplicated at one end of the shaft 9 and lie outside of the main frame 1. Extended across the main frame 1 and journaled in all of the bars 11 is a supplemental shaft 16. A. short auxiliary shaft 17 is journaled in the side bars 10'which are duplicated at one side of the machine, as shown at 15. Mounted on the shafts 16 and 17 and located between the duplicated side bars are sprocket wheels 18 connected by a sprocket chain 19. The shaft 17 carries a friction wheel 20 adapted to cooperate with the pulley 6 when the auxiliary frame is swung on its pivotal mounting 8-9. In order to secure a swinging movement in the auxiliary frame, one of the side bars 10 is equipped with an upstanding handle 21'. The auxiliary frame, when in an inoperative position lies in a position inclined with respect to the vertical, as shown in Fig. 2, and the ends of the supplemental shaft 16 pro ject beyond the side portions of the auxiliary frame and engage the rear bars 34 of the main frame to prevent the auxiliary frame from swinging rearwardly beyond a predetermined angle.

Mounted on the supplemental shaft 16 are attrition elements which cotiperate with the gin saws 5. These attrition elements may be of any desired form, but preferably they comprise disks 22 disposed in abutment and in pairs, the disks having openings 23 which receive the shaft. Spacers or. supports 24 surround the shaft 16 and lie between the pairs of disks 22. End blocks 23 surround the-shaft 16 and abut against the outermost disks 22. Securing devices 26 pass through the spacers 24;, the end blocks 25 and the disks 22, the disks'22 being. provided with openings 27, which receive the securing devices.

The disks 22 are equipped with outstanding peripheral fingers 28. The fingers on the respective abutting disks "may be disnoted by the reference character 30 and the fingers being shown at 31. In this form of the invention the fingers on the respective disks are not disposed opposite to each other, as shown in Fig 4, but are arranged in alternatingrelation, asindicated'at 32 in Fig. 5. a

In practical operation, the auxiliary frame is swung upon its pivotal mounting 9, through the instrumentality of the handle 21, until the friction wheel 20 isibrought into cooperation with the'pulley G. By this operation the gin saws 5' will have been caused to enter between the fingers 28. When the shaft'l is rotated, movement will be imparted tothe pulley 6 andthepulley 6 will rotate the friction wheel 20, the latter driving the shaft 117 and motion being imparted to the shaft 16 through the medium of the sprocket wheels 18 and the sprocket chain 19. When the shaft 16is thus rotated, the fingers 28 will engage with opposite edges of the gin saws 5 and remove cotton and gummy material therefrom. When the saws 5 have been cleaned sufiiciently, the handle 21 is released and the auxiliary frame will swing gravitationally into theposition shown in Fig. 2, the ends of the shaft 16 engaging the rear bars 34 of the main frame 1, to limit the rearward swinging movement of the auxiliary frame.

Having thus described the invention,- what is claimed is 7 1. A gin saw cleaner embodying a main frame; a gin saw thereon; a vertically swinging radiusframe; a pivot element connecting the lower end of the radius frame with the main frame; and a cleaner upon the radius frame, the 'cleanerbeing movable with the radius frame toward and away from the saw in an arc of which the pivot element is the center, the radius frame comprisinglongitudinally extensible parts, and

a connection between said parts, thereby to permit an adjustment in the radius of the arc in which the cleaner swings, and to position the cleaner for engagement with the saw,'when the radius frame is swung.

2. A gin saw cleaner embodying a main frame; a gin saw thereon; a vertically swinging radius frame; a pivot element connecting the lower end of the radius frame with the main frame; and a cleaner upon the radius'frame,the cleaner being movable with the radius frame toward and away from the saw in an arc of which the pivot element is the center, the radius frame being 7 inclined with respect to the vertical to. rest gravitationally in engagement with the main frame and out ofvoperative relation with the saw; the radius frame embodying'lon-o abutting disks on the shaft and equipped V "with peripheral, diverging fingers outstanding beyond the peripheries of thedisks supports engaging the outer faces of the disks and mounted on the shaft; and securing devices engaging the supports and the disks independently of the'shaft.

In testimony that we clai the foregoing as our own, we have, hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

MALON I. FLOWERS.

-' WILLIAM S LYNCH.

Witnesses: r V v P. DJDAVIs,

S. H. VAUGHAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

